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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids don't play travel sports nor are they in any of the competitive, try out orchestras, but I have no issues with kids who pursue those passions! My kids fall in the camp of wanting to play their preferred sports more than rec sports permits, but with much less intensity and skill than the travel level. So what works for them is MSI's classic level soccer and BCC's select level baseball. They also enjoy playing their respective instruments, but are satisfied with their school band. The only part of the high level competitive sports/music/whatever that I don't "get" is the part where the parents/rest of family wrap themselves into planning entire weekends around regular out of town competitions, especially when most likely there are just as good teams to be playing in NoVa if you are in MoCo, or Baltimore, etc - instead of driving the NJ for the weekend :-). Seems to me that if the kids want that level of involvement/commitment then that is great, but I don't want my whole family's weekend memories to be on the sidelines of child #1's soccer games. [/quote]

My brothers played a travel sport back in the 1980s-1990s. It had the travel commitments I see now from travel sports. As a family we are close and I partially credit evenings spent playing games in hotel rooms after tournaments, traveling, cheering each other on. Yes, there was some boredom especially when I was a teenager, but there was also just a lot of time together that I appreciate as an adult. I also did a time-consuming activity (music), and my brothers were expected to support me as well, which they did. It's not all bad, in other words, even if you're not the one playing. My parents, now in their late 70s, have very fond memories of those trips and speak about them often. It wasn't perfect but it wasn't terrible, either. 
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